The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-10-13
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMEcTI0

from tho Winnebago Indians Of Nebraska
has been filed with the secretary OF tho In
terror in which Miss Alice G. Fletcher, re-
Gently appointed special agent and sent 70
the Winnebago agency TO divide their lands
In soveralty to those Indians, is charged with
refusing to allow the Indians to retain their
improvements The Indian memorialists say
they believe Miss Fletcher is under corrupt
influences, and is using her official power to
deprive them Of their best lands. The COM
plant is signed by six chiefs, Miss
Fletcher is q native OF Boston, and was
the Interior Schurz in 1882 to divide the lands
of the Omaha Indians in severalty. Since
then she has figured as representative Of
the Woman's Indian Association Of Philadel-
phia. She was appointed by Secretary
Lamar special Indian agent, and sent to
allot the lands of the Winnebago Indians un-
der the Dawes severalty bill.
A special from Tampa, Fla, says; Physi-
clans have pronounced the existence of yell
low fever The people are panic stricken,
and the city is being deserted. The fever will
not likely become epidemic for several days,
if at all. There is little real cause for general
alarm, as the weather is most favorable to
health and early frost is anticipated.
A. II. Smell, paying teller of the Fulton
Bank Brooklyn, N. Y, has been arrested,
charged with defrauding the bank of ST., 900
by cashing checks which he knew to be
worthless. 1t is supposed that the amount
stated by the bank, $4,000, is too small. 1t
is reported that the total defalcation may
reach 100000. SHELLS operations have been
going on only short time, His method was
to cash forged checks. drawn in tho name of
actual depositors, by which means he could
pay out large sums, but could not avoid de-
lection very long, and it is supposed that the
conspirators intended to make a quick and
large haul and flee.
The Methodist churches of New York dis
trict, in conference, declined to admit and
ordain Charles Rogers of Connecticut be-
played cards.
AT the Woman's Suffrage party's head
quarters, New York, legal opinions were
made public from ex- Chief Justice Greene Of
Washington territory, ex-Chief Justice
McCurdy of Connecticut. ex-Chief Justice
Cole of Iowa, ex-Judge Waite Of Chicago,
ex-Judge Culver of Brooklyn, and other
equally distinguished lawyers, fully indors-
ing Mr.. Hamilton Wilcox's claim that
women are legally entitled to vote
The 60 drivers of the Fifth avenue stage
line have been on strike, because they were
ordered to wear high hats and reG-faced uni
forms. The company compromised on derbys
and made other concessions.
Isaac Simon and Louis Burger, partners In
a Broadway On W cloak making business,
who failed recently, were arrested to-day on
the charge of obtaining under false represen-
tations large quantities of goods just before
failing and shipping merchandise for the
same purpose to relatives in Troy. The goods
shipped to Troy have been attached. The
schedules of the firm filed show liabilities of
$50, 900, nominal assets SIS, 2lS and actual as
sets $S2lS.
A special from the Crow Indian agency
says: 10 Crows left their agency under the
leadership of Sword Bearer, young medi-
cine man, for the Piegan country, from which
tribe they stole II horses and on their return
took an unknown number from settlers along
the route They defied the authority of the
Indian police and five of their number rode
around the agency, firing into several build
ings, the agents house and the traders store.
Sword Bearer now has an estimated follow
ing of 200. He has retreated to the noun
tainS with his braves and is making medi-
cine and boiling war dance
Horatio Williams, the electrician of the
Boston police department. was drugged and
robbed of $500, gold watch and revolver
in Chicago avenue saloon recently.
Bertha Jarrett an actress residing in New
York, has obtained an absolute divorce from
her husband, Asbury Jarrett, a theatrical
manager, on the ground of adultery COM
mitted in Boston on DECEMBER 20, 1886.
A dispatch from Key West, Fla, says that
long before the disease at Tampa was official
ly pronounced to be yellow fever a hurried
exodus occurred, the city now being virtual
ly deserted. Stores, hotels. in fact all places
of business are closed, the proprietors having
fed. The panicis so great that in many in
stances thousands of dollars worth of proper
ty was left unprotected, and special police
had to be sworn in to prevent depredations.
The disease is typical yellow jack of the most
virulent character, the worst feature being
that no effort was made to prevent itsspread.
Mattresses and bedding covered with black
vomit were exposed in the streets.
Mrs. John S. Naylor of Philadelphia, Pa,
was killed in East Paramount Park by at
tempting to Jump from a brougham whrled
along by a team of runaway horses. Mrs
William DiSston, who was also in the car
riage, leaped, but alighted in safety. Mrs.
Naylor was the wife of John S. Naylor,
general manager of the Peoples Iron
Works She was 35 years old, and leaves
three children.
Five lives have been sacrificed in the latest
Kentucky feud on Yellow Creek, Bell county.
The fight is between the families of Lee
Turner and General Sowders, who are
brothers-in-law, and their respective friends,
and grew out of a domestic quarrel. Sow
still at large. Harvey Turner then shot and
killed Jim Rains, friend of Sowders. While
the sheriff's posse were after Harvey Turner
they met Jack Turner and some of his friends
and in the fight George Thomas, marshal,
was killed. Jack Turner was shot by Marsh
Turner some days afterward, and Howard
Munroe of the Turner faction has since been
killed by unknown parties.
Over 1000 brass workers of New York and
Brooklyn are locked out because they would
not relinquish the Saturday half-holiday.
in the fight They say they will also receive
help from the building trades, which will
caution its members not to handle the goods
made by the firms of the association.
An attempt was made to wreck the Yank-
ton passenger train on the Milwaukee & st.
Paul road on a curve near Ella Point, by
fastening an oak tie on the track. The enoi-
neer discovered the obstruction too late to
stop, but, luckily, the train was not derailed.
Over 500 excursionists were crowded into the
coaches, and, had the designs of the villains
been accomplished, the loss of life would have
been frightful
Gus Williams, the comedian, was surprised
few days ago by receiving demand from
a New York matrimonial agency for 500 for
services in securing him wife. The agency
threatened suit, and Mr.. Williams has placed
the matter in his New York lawyers hands.
He says he courted his wife himself, and
never heard of the agency until now. He
married under his real name, and not under
his stage name of Williams.
Evidence has been brought to light of a
horrible crime, or series of crimes, in Hurley,
Wis. A day or two ago some men went on q
hunting expedition up a ravine, and, right
beside the ruins of an old dance house, under
some rotten logs and slight covering Of
earth, they saw the decomposed corpses Of
seven men, evidently murdered. They
lay just as the slayers had thrown
them, some with gaping wounds, show
ing that they had fought hard for their
lives, while others lay huddled up, as if their
murderers had done their work while their vic
Tins lay in drunken stupor. The hunters
informed the proper authorities. but an in
vestigation, which has just closed, failed to
disclose the identity of the men or any evil
dence as to the murderers. The victims, who
had evidently been robbed, were buried in
one grave.
FOREIGN.
The project of Guayaquil, Ecuador, has is
sued decree imposing a fine of from "a to
$40 upon all persons using the telephone for
the purpose of sending chatting
Tho Nautical Society of Hamburg has
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